“What?—Who else?”
“Nobody else—only I—well I’d—I’d thought about it different—like some pictures.”
She smiled with a gentle radiance, and asked indulgently, “And how was I different?”
“Not all that soft stuff—plainer.”
“But don’t I look very nice with all this soft stuff, as you call it?”—and she shook the silk away from her smiles.
“Oh, yes—better than those naked lines.”
“You are quaint to-night—what did you want me for—to say good-bye?”
“Good-bye?”
“Yes—you’re going away, Cyril tells me. I’m very sorry—fancy horrid strangers at the Mill! But then I shall be gone away soon, too. We are all going you see, now we’ve grown up,”—she kept hold of my arm. “Yes.”
“And where will you go—Canada? You’ll settle there and be quite a patriarch, won’t you?”